Object Details
- Artist
- Howard Newman, born Elizabeth, NJ 1943
- Luce Center Label
- Winter depicts a large, heavily clad figure with only a tiny face revealed to the elements. The fragmented construction resembles armor, suggesting a form of defense against violence as well as the weather. Newman feels that every individual requires some form of protection, and Winter could be a metaphor for the imagined barriers people create between themselves and the rest of the world.
- Luce Object Quote
- “We protect ourselves to keep out of the cold of the northern winter and the gaze, real or imagined, that others or we ourselves cast upon us.” Howard Newman, 2004
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
- 1978
- Object number
- 1985.30.55
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- bronze on integral base
- Dimensions
- 15 x 6 1/2 x 8 1/8 in. (38.1 x 16.5 x 20.7 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Figure
- Allegory\season\winter
- Record ID
- saam_1985.30.55
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk763d4843d-c35c-4736-b72d-26d5b2309a07
